Gov. Dayton has proposed a budget that will make Minnesota worse, not better, increasing your taxes by $2.976 billion (8.5 percent) and paying for $1.64 billion of built-in (automatic) spending increases and $1.031 billion in new spending. When will the Democrats wake up and realize we have a spending problem?
The proposed budget undermines job and economic growth and is weighted entirely toward new revenue. Most striking, the high-level budget fails to highlight any specific new expenditure reductions. Very little in the budget says Minnesota is open for business.
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma have proposed full phaseouts of their income taxes, while Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio are pushing significant tax cuts. Minnesota is an expansion of tax and spend!
Dayton is pushing for anti-competitive tax increases on the middle class and small business community in tandem with a collection of regressive tax hikes on middle and lower income families’ with no spending cuts, and we are to believe this is a balanced approach? See a problem?
Contrary to political rhetoric coming out of St. Paul right now, Minnesota's revenues have climbed (up $1.076 billion for 2012-13 biennium) and its unemployment plummeted after two years of a stable tax code.
Of course, the Democrats will tell you that state government was cut to the bone and these tax increases are needed. State spending still increased 5.9 percent in the 2010-11 budget and by 7.2 percent in the 2012-13 budget all the while erasing a $6.4 billion and $5.2 billion deficits.
Instead of a rebate, how about reducing taxes and letting me keep that to begin with? Giving me a handout while picking my pocket at the same time isn’t responsible budgeting. It’s a sham!
David Anderson,
Lonsdale
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Add commentWe do not have only a spending problem, as David Anderson claims
We also have a revenue problem and a problem of state funding of schools and local units of government which has forced local units of government to raise property taxes due to being short-changed by the Greedy Obstructionist Party (GOP) budgets. That is if we wish to maintain Minnesota's quality of life and standard of living, which David Anderson (Dapa2) consistently opposes. If he had his way, we would lower ourselves beyond Alabama's miserable level.
I am not going to waste my time refuting Dapa2's numbers, but we know that he consistently props up his extreme views by lying through omission and quoting extreme, dishonestly spun sources.
One obvious example is his dishonest claim that the Dayton budget proposes, "increasing your taxes by $2.976 billion (8.5 percent)...", when, in fact, it would provide significant property tax relief, and that the primary increases would apply only on the top income Minnesotans, who currently pay far less than their fair share with our highly regressive state and local tax rates. That is not "your taxes."
LOL! Poor Nutz
he's decided it's Greedy to want to keep the money you earn.
To a liberal, believing that you pay too much in taxes or even opposing paying more in taxes is greedy. In actuality, wanting to loot as much money as possible that someone else has earned to use for your own purposes, which is what liberals do, is a much better example of greed.
“At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child—miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”—P.J. O’Rourke
"Shared sacrifice” really means taking other people's money, while “greed” is not wanting to give it up and “responsibility” is when the government takes it anyway......
Until Drug dazed Dayton takes ALL of his money out of tax havens and subjets it to MN taxes he's as much of a hypocrite as Franken ,Dashole, Geithner, Rangel, Kerry, Kennedy and all the other liberal taxdodgers.
Well said Sleepr!
Well said Sleepr!
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Lets see GOP paid back half of shift last year and DFL Governor vetoed it. Local government spending SHOULD be paid for by local property taxes - thats what they are for! LGA is like welfare for cities. Nobody is accountable for that money as someone else pays for it.
My numbers are from the Governors Management and Budget office. So obviously they are wrong.
Budget does not reduce property taxes - that is a lie. You are teased with a rebate which in my mind says you paid to much to begin with. Nowhere does it mandate a reduction in taxes. Giving locals more in the history of Minnesota HAS NOT lead to a property tax decrease except the schools coming off property taxes. Otherwise your are spouting opinion NOT fact!
Even the Star Tribune hardly the defender of the rich, taxpayer of familes states Daytons plan is, "A damaging tax plan fails the fairness test"
And then there is economics.
According to mainstream economic thought, the trouble with raising state tax rates on a narrow tax base springs from the incentives higher tax rates create for taxpayers to avoid additional tax payments.
Taxpayers can avoid state income taxes through tax shelters, working less, making fewer taxable investments, or by moving to a lower tax state. Each tax avoidance avenue, in its own way, makes it harder for poor and middle class workers to find well-paying jobs in Minnesota.
And then there is Dapa2's version of trickle-down economics
Dapa2 plays the old discredited: "According to mainstream economic thought, the trouble with raising state tax rates on a narrow tax base springs from the incentives higher tax rates create for taxpayers to avoid additional tax payments."
His version of "mainstream economic thought" is straight from the bowels of right-wing-world. By his radical thinking, we can't raise tax rates on the rich to make them pay their fair share, because they will just find other ways to evade paying taxes. Doooooooh!?!
Does he realize how completely idiotic that argument is? Of course he wouldn't.
Sleepy, are you Robert Olson?
I ask because you use the same sort of "reasoning" and your script seems to be programmed by the same drug-addled gas-bag (Rush). You know, the whackodoodle thinking that Democrats bad, because they don't work or pay taxes and Republicans good, because they work and pay taxes.
Just a hunch, but I'd bet that I pay a whole hellavalot more taxes than you do. That's just a hunch, based on your disdain for public education and the correlation between the ignorance in your postings/letters/expression on this site and those of lower socio-economic status.
Sorry Fringe Nutz
I'm not Bob Olsen.
I'd ask if you're a blithering idiot but the answer is self evident.
Being Open Minded:
To a liberal, this has nothing at all to do with seriously considering other people's ideas. To the contrary, liberals define being "open-minded" as agreeing with them. What could be more close-minded than assuming that not only are you right, but that you don't even need to consider another viewpoint because anyone who disagrees must be evil?